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O-Level Business Studies Syllabus 2011

Introduction
Business Studies is a course that is firmly based upon current business practice and organisation. While
being broad and flexible it is relevant, rigorous, and balanced, thus providing commercial students with a
strong foundation for courses of further specialisation such as Economics, Accounting and Marketing.
Business Studies is also a key subject in the formative aspects of the student as a consumer, citizen and
worker.

The educational aims of the Business Studies course are to:

Provide a broad understanding of the activities that take place within a business environment with special reference to the local environment, and of the way in which changes in that environment influence business behaviour;
Enhance the realisation that business activity is dynamic and to help students identify and understand the changes in social, politi cal, legal, commercial, economic and above all technological influences, to which business activity has to respond;
Understand the diversity and complexity of modern business activities and how these activities are interrelated;
Provide knowledge of the major institutions and organisations within the private and public sectors of the economy, and an understanding of the socio-economic and commercial roles of these institutions;
Develop an awareness of how the main types of business and commercial institutions are set up, organised, financed and operated and how their relationships with other organisations, consumers, employees, owners and society at large are controlled and regulated within a legal framework of rights and duties;
Develop an appreciation of the marketing of factor inputs and product outputs of businesses and the forces which determine and control them;
Develop the need for decision making in business and how knowledge and understanding of business language, concepts and communication skills help in the decision making process;
Develop numeracy and literacy skills in the interpretation of data and how such data can be discovered, selected and presented;
Develop an appreciation of the interdependence of all individuals, groups, and institutions within the working world and how socio-economic development could be enhanced through participation, cooperation, mutual understanding and ethical issues (including appreciation of the contribution of each individual as an employer, employee, consumer, as well as honesty, respect for the environment etc.)